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debtor, if the annual premiums paid do not exceed five hundred dollars.

9. All arms, ammunition, uniforms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by any person.

10. All courthouses, jails, public offices and buildings, schoolhouses, houses of public worship, lots, grounds and personal property appertaining thereto; the fixtures, furniture, books, papers and appurtenances belonging and pertaining to the courthouse, jail and public offices belonging to any county in this state, or for the use of schools or houses of public worship; and all cemeteries, public squares, parks and places, public buildings, town halls, public markets, buildings for the use of fire departments and military organizations, and the lots and grounds thereto belonging and appertaining, owned or held by any town or incorporated city, or dedicated by such town or city to health, ornament or public use, or for the use of any fire or military company, now existing, or which may be under the laws of this state hereafter organized.

11: A homestead selected or claimed as provided in the title "Homesteads" of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898. Approved this 13th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 32.

FUNDING OF COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS.

AN ACT to amend section 514 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, relating to the funding of county indebtedness.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. That section 514 of the Revised Statutes, 1898, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows, to-wit:

514. County debts existing June 4th, 1896. The board of county commissioners of any county having an outstanding indebtedness on the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, evidenced by bonds, warrants, promissory notes or other evidences thereof, provided that such indebtedness is not in excess of that authorized by law, by an affirmative vote of all the members thereof, is empowered to fund and refund the same, and to issue bonds of the county therefor, in sums not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars each, having not more than twenty years to run, and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall be substantially in the following form:

No.............. The county of value received, promises to pay. of the treasurer of said county, in

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hundred and.

(twenty years after date), or at any time before that date and after (ten years after date), at the pleasure of the county, the sum of ...dollars, lawful money of the United States, with interest at the rate of per cent. per annum, payable at the office of said treasurer semi-annually, on the first day of ........and. in each year, on presentation and surrender of the interest coupons hereto attached. This bond is issued by the board of county commissioners, in conformity to a resolution of said board, dated the and....

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Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon approval.
Approved this 13th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 33.

SCHOOL OF MINES.

AN ACT providing for the establishment of a state school of mines.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. School of mines established. A state school of mines is hereby established in connection with, and as a department of, the University of Utah in accordance with the enabling act admitting Utah into the Union of states.

Sec. 2. Under control of University. Said school shall be under the management and control of the regents of the University of Utah.

Sec. 3. Beneficiary of land grants. Said school shall be the beneficiary of all land grants, and appropriations, made, or to be made by the United States to the state of Utah for the establishment and the maintenance of a school of mines.

Sec. 4. Course of studies. In said school there may be offered to students, studies and courses of instruction relating to mining, metallurgical, electrical, and such other branches of engineering as pertain to the pursuit and development in all its branches of the mining industry of Utah.

Approved this 13th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 34.

DEPUTY CLERK AND STENOGRAPHER OF THE SUPREME COURT.

AN ACT amending section 666 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, relating to the appointment of a deputy clerk of the supreme court, and enacting a new section to be known as section 666a, creating the office of stenographer of the supreme court, and fixing the salary thereof.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. That sec. 666 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

666. Deputy clerk and assistants. The clerk shall appoint a deputy clerk, and may appoint such assistants as may be necessary for the transaction of the business of the office, who shall be paid by the clerk out of the salary allowed him.

666a. Supreme court stenographer. The supreme court shall appoint a stenographer who shall hold his office during the pleasure of the court, whose duty it shall be to act as stenographer for the members of such court, and who shall receive a salary of nine hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly in the manner provided by law for the payment of the salaries of other state officers. Approved this 13th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 35.

STATE BOARD OF LAND COMMISSIONERS.

AN ACT to amend sections 1,3, 17 and 42 of chapter 64 of the Laws of Utah, 1899, of an act entitled "An Act creating and defining the powers and duties of the state board of land commissioners, providing for the selection, location, appraisement, protection, sale, rental and general management of the public lands of the state, and for the investment of the funds arising from the sale and leasing of such lands, the distribution of the income thereof, and for the sale and protection of the timber on the lands of the state," approved March 9th, 1899.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

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SECTION 1. That sections 1, 3, 17 and 42 of chapter 64 of the Laws of Utah, 1899, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows:

1. State board of land commissioners created. A state board of land commissioners is hereby created, which shall consist of the Governor and four resident citizens of the state, who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the senate. Not more than three members of the board shall belong to one political party. Each commissioner shall hold his office for two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified.

3. Salary and expenses of commissioners. Each of the appointed commissioners shall receive for his services an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, except the secretary, who shall receive eighteen hundred dollars, payable quarterly; and the said commissioners shall receive actual and necessary traveling expenses while in the performance of their official duties.

17. Relinquishment of filings under U. S. laws and purchase from state. The state board of land commissioners is hereby authorized to contract with occupants who have filed upon lands in this state under the laws of the United States, whereby said occupants can relinquish their said entry to said land and be permitted to purchase the said tract of land from this state after its selection by the state board, at private sale, at a price to be fixed by the board, which price shall not be less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, provided that at the time of making such contract twenty-five cents per acre shall be deposited with the board to be applied as the first payment on such land after the same is patented to the state, and the remainder of the purchase price shall be paid in not to exceed ten equal yearly payments.

42. Rights of way over state lands. Nothing in this act shall be construed as to impair the vested or accrued rights of any ditch or irrigation company, or any person owning any ditch or ditches, on or passing through any state lands, or to prevent the sale of more than one hundred and sixty acres for a continuous right of way, or for stations and building grounds within the state for a common carrier, or for canal or irrigation companies or associations. And the

board is hereby authorized and empowered to grant, at such prices and under such terms as it may deem wise and proper, or without compensation if in its judgment no damage will result therefrom, rights of way on and over any state lands for the transmission of electrical energy or for telephonic purposes.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon approval.
Approved this 13th day of March, 1901.

CHAPTER 36.

KOHL MEISEN.

AN ACT to provide for the importation of the bird, known as the "Kohl Meisen," as a foe to orchard pests, and authorizing the state board of horticulture to purchase such birds, and making an appropriation therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:

SECTION 1. Kohl Meisen to be imported. The state board of horticulture of the state of Utah is authorized to import into this state the birds known as the German "Kohl Meisen."

Sec. 2. How distributed. It shall be the duty of the state board of horticulture to distribute the said birds in such numbers and at such places as to determine the value of the said Kohl Meisen as a means of decreasing the numbers and the ravages of the codlin moth worm and other injurious insects.

Sec. 3. Bulletins to be issued. The state board of horticulture shall report by bulletins for free distribution to the people of Utah all facts ascertained regarding the action of the Kohl Meisen as a protection to the orchards.

Sec. 4. Appropriation. For the purpose of this act there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed upon warrant of the State Auditor issued to the state board of horticulture when duly authorized by the state board of examiners.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect upon approval.
Approved this 13th day of March, 1901.

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